Re: xfs bug in 2.6.17.9?

Stian Jordet
2006-08-25T01:00:41Z

tor, 24,.08.2006 kl. 14.29 +0200, skrev Martin Steigerwald:
> It looks to me that the directory corruption bug in kernel 2.6.17 upto
> 2.6.17.6 hit you: Did you use a 2.6.17 kernel < 2.6.17.7 before?
>
> See
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#dir2
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6757
>
> Try xfs_check and if it finds errors xfs_repair.
>
> If xfs_repair cannot fix it, you will have to look out a version that
> contains some fixes related to handling this kind of corruption:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2006-07/msg00374.html

Martin,

thanks for your help. I did use both 2.6.17.1 and 2.6.17.3 before
2.6.17.9... So I guess (hope) that's the problem, and not my memory...

I have run xfs_repair 2.8.11 on two filesystems with errors (luckily,
neither my /home nor my backup partition seems to be hit), and it find
some errors, but if I run it again, I finds the same errors over and
over again... I seem to have it up and running again now, but I really
don't like that xfs_repair shows a lot of errors on each run. Don't like
that at all... It says it has fixed the errors, but I just never get rid
of them.

Is that normal? Guess not. And is it something that can happen with the
directory corruption bug? I read that I needed to have xfsprogs >2.8.10,
but that didn't help neither...

Best regards,
Stian